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it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.
Sep 15, 2025
If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.
It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption in that is that most of what I acted in the last 10 years was to steal film school time from these guys. Those were the people I thought I could learn from as a director.
[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.
Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz fan. Even more than concerts, a lot of my high school time was spent going to jazz clubs in the city.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do
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